Divide the group into five smaller groups and assign each group one of the words listed below. Read the story. After each of the words is read pause for the group to make the appropriate response.

LITTLE BEAR	"I'll get this right!"
DRUMS	hit thighs rhythmically
SMOKE SIGNALS	"Pooff, Pooff!
INDIAN	War whoop
MOTHER	"You can do it!"

LITTLE BEAR ___ was a very hard working INDIAN ___ boy. He studied hard to learn to play the DRUMS ___ so he could send messages to his friends in other villages. But LITTLE BEAR ___ had trouble with his lessons in SMOKE SIGNALS ___. After one particularly frustrating experience, LITTLE BEAR ___ ran into his teepee and threw himself down on his buffalo skin bed. "What is the trouble, LITTLE BEAR ___," asked his MOTHER ___ who was busy sewing new buckskins for his father. "MOTHER ___," why must INDIANS ___ learn to do SMOKE SIGNALS ___?" LITTLE BEAR ___ asked. "To communicate," she replied, "this was the INDIANS ___ from our tribe can talk to other villages." "But we have the DRUMS ___," said LITTLE BEAR ___. "This may not always be enough," his MOTHER ___ replied, "we also need the SMOKE SIGNALS ___. Now go on back and practice your SMOKE SIGNALS ___ some more."

LITTLE BEAR ___ left the teepee. He stopped by his DRUMS ___ and sent a little message, but no one answered. So he made a little fire, just the right size to send SMOKE SIGNALS ___. He took out his blanket and when the fire was just right, he trapped the smoke and let out a nice little puff. But it just didn't look right. Then an old INDIAN ___ who had been watching from a little ways off came up to him. "LITTLE BEAR ___," he said, "I see what you are doing wrong. You are not spelling it right." LITTLE BEAR ___ looked surprised; he did not know you could misspell SMOKE SIGNALS ___. "Let me show you," said the old INDIAN ___. He took the blanket and held it a bit differently. As he released the SMOKE SIGNAL ___ it floated softly into the sky. And it looked just right.

"I see," said LITTLE BEAR ___, "I was holding it wrong." He took the blanket and tried it himself. Once again a perfect SMOKE SIGNAL ___ drifted into the afternoon sky. "Oh, thank you, thank you," he said turning to where the old INDIAN ___ had stood. But the old INDIAN ___ had disappeared. LITTLE BEAR ___ ran to the teepee. "MOTHER ___," he called, "I can do it! Now I can communicate with DRUMS ___ and SMOKE SIGNALS ___. MOTHER ___, who was the old INDIAN ___ who helped me?" But LITTLE BEAR'S ___ MOTHER ___ did not answer, she only smiled.

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